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This week’s edition of Link Drop has a heavy duty number of site that are related to visualization, though ironically I’m wondering if the idea is getting severely bloated? Another irony is that I’m starting to think is that while newspapers and logos are on their last legs, I think typography and more to the point typefaces are going to surge in quality—just throwing that out there… I’m sure there’s more to mention like how Daylife’s site should be checked out, but I’ll leave that for a future post…
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Presenting The Sound Advice Project – the purity ring of anti-drug campaigns… and Bicycle Built for Two Thousand
I thought these were two good additions to what I had mentioned last week with Joshua Distler’s Music CD Labeling System. I really like the three dimensionality of the first one. A person could build a lot of interesting things off a system like that. The second sound visualizer is interesting to me because they put the power of Mechanical Turk into play which sort of leads to the next link below about dirt…
This Just In-box: Dirt from every state by H. Mathis of ANTI©SUCCESS
This designer used the power of Craiglist to get someone from every state to send him dirt. Imagine trying to do that in the good ol’days with classified ads in papers in every state.
The Magic Behind Amazon’s 2.7 Billion Dollar Question
This is by far my favourite link of the week. Insane how balancing the scales with a couple simple buttons has created so much value for Amazon.
Newspapers Are Dead, Long Live the News
A good summary of two other essays that were making the rounds on the internet. For those trying to lock their content under a pay fee – I wish you the best of luck. Too bad no one is going to be able to find your valuable content.
COÛTE QUE COÛTE: MODELS
There can never be enough sites with models, need I say more?
Zoolgical Typeface (2008)
I really liked how fun this was. I think logos are pretty much dead like newspapers but something like this has a lot of potential to create an identity as much as one symbol could.
What is a Pylon?
From now own it shall be known as a pylon. At least that’s what I’m going to call it. I just wonder when I’m ever going to have a conversation about a pylon. Most people don’t know the difference between aerial and times…
NEO-CON
Looks like I’m going to take a trip to this gallery in the not so distant future.
Why Mami?
I’m not a parent but if you have a small child you might want to check it out. The cool idea is to post questions that her children ask and post possible answers.
Terms of Use
I’m surprised that more sites don’t do stuff like this. Give the proper law language, but also break it down in terms that anyone can understand.
Tanning Benefits – A Tattoo
Will this be the next summer trend where people fake bake?
Branislav Kropilak Billboards
When was the last time you walked under a billboard? Me—never. Interesting perspective that shows things in a different light.
Google’s Irene Au: On Design Challenges
As much as this might bother people, if you’re trying to get the most clicks or links or what ever the “most” means, why wouldn’t you do that? Good perspective from Google.
NYC Sitcom Map
When most of these shows were on back in the day, I was in Canada and had no idea what New York was aside from a city with some shows. Now things can be cleared up with this map.
27 Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis
When I scrolled through all of these quite quickly I wondered if the viz. industry has become a bit bloated. Are we really discovering anything new, shedding light or just using data as personal expression?
Sometimes a bike isn’t just a bike
I’m surprised that more people haven’t raised this issue.
User experience trading cards. 2009 Series now available only at the IA Summit (for now).
A really great resource that I’m happy that they’ve put online for anyone interested in this info..
The Pomodoro Technique
I’m going to try this, I’m daring myself to be more efficient.
BRITTICISMS.
Really great music blog. I also like the plug in that allows me to listen to all her picks while I scroll.
Online News models visualized by my students
Interesting to see how others are taking on news that are still in school.
Twitter.com finally removes their awful pagination
I’m also surprised more people haven’t mentioned this evolution to twitter. Is it because all their users are using other client applications because the original service was a brutal experience?
the only rule in digital is that there are no rules
Rules vs no rules, people love making lists of things that could be but no one is going to follow up to see if they’re right or not.
Datavisualization.ch ♥ MooCards
Another cool idea with moocards.
distorted youth
Stuff like this is the only way illustration as a profession is going to survive.
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